“Dewey's Debt to Barnes” • PDF (file size: 115 KB) Published in Curator: The Museum Journal, Volume 54 [2], pages 123-139. John Dewey’s association with Albert C. Barnes significantly influenced his monumental Art as Experience, a fact Dewey fully acknowledged both in that work and in other writings. Yet Barnes’s contribution to Dewey’s ideas has seldom been discussed. This article documents the extent to which Dewey relied on Barnes for his exposition of visual aesthetics.

“An Optimistic Time” •
PDF (file size: 672 KB) An introductory chapter written in 2009 for Boston Stories: The Children's Museum as a Model for Nonprofit Leadership, a collaborative effort led by former Boston Children's Museum director Michael Spock, that includes conventional text, photographs, and illustrations; as well as companion media and a fully searchable and downloadable digital archive. Publication is expected soon.

“Science
Education 1965 and 2005: Myths and Differences”, (2006). A condensed version
of this paper, delivered at a symposium, Science Education
for a Thriving Democracy celebrating the 40th anniversary of the founding
of TERC, November 2005, was published in Hands
On! 29[1] 4-6,19, 2006. •
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